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Google Chrome’s Lens Search Gives You the Goods Without Opening a New Tab

Kellen May 24, 2022 2

Using Google Lens within Google Chrome on a desktop is a great way to get more information about an image within a website. A simple right-click and then "Search Images with Google Lens" can get you a bunch of related information that used to be much more...

New Android OS Rollout Still Very, Very Slow According to Data

Tim April 11, 2022 7

Back in the day, Google used to be very good about providing distribution numbers for Android. We'd see a pie graph with a breakdown of each OS version's portion of the pie. For us, it was a great way to see how well newer versions of Android were being...

Chrome’s Privacy Guide Makes It Simpler Than Ever to Stay Secure

Kellen April 6, 2022 5

Google is introducing a new privacy tool within Chrome today called Privacy Guide. As the name sort of implies, this will act as a guide to help you better understand and control your levels of security within Chrome. When accessed within Settings, the Privacy...

Chrome 100 Released on Android!

Kellen March 29, 2022 6

Google's Chrome team had a big day today, with the release of Chrome 100 on several platforms. We got the stable update on desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux) as well as on iOS. The Android version has been signed off on too, but may not hit your devices for a...

Google x McLaren is Exactly What Formula 1 Needed

Tim March 16, 2022 5

Mmm, nothing beats the sound of a Formula 1 car. But now picture that car featuring an assortment of Google-related logos, like Android and Chrome. Pretty sweet, right? That's exactly what we can look forward to seeing, thanks to a new multi-year partnership...

Chrome for Android is Faster Than Ever

Kellen March 7, 2022 4

Google is celebrating today with the M99 release of Chrome on desktops, because it "substantially increases the speed of Chrome across all major platforms." More specifically, Chrome for Mac has apparently achieved the highest score to date in Apple's...

Chrome for Android Gets a Couple of Sweet New Widgets

Kellen February 8, 2022 7

That home screen of yours has looked a bit off since Material You took it over, right? Chrome is here to fix it right up. Today, Google is shipping out at least 3 widgets to the Chrome app in various sizes and with all sorts of functions. There's some other...

Chrome Icon Gets Radical Makeover

Tim February 5, 2022 37

In the latest Canary build for Google's Chrome browser, the company introduced an updated icon. As seen above, Google spared no expense at giving the updated icon a very nice, clean aesthetic. Compared to 2008's Simon-lookalike logo, I think this is pretty...